C.S.

I hope Shield loses or there's a New Day turn. Shield will win their "return match" and there won't be a New Day turn.

I'm here. Nice to be noticed! There are a few matches that should be great, but I honestly have very little motivation or excitement for this - of course, I'm watching anyway. I skipped the bloated pre-show, and it sounds like I made a wide decision. This show is already too long. BTW, to the poster who said he stopped watching Raw and SD, I think a lot of us are in the same boat. Well, I am anyway.

HOLY SHIT!

Lars Sullivan looks like a powerhouse. Kassius Ohno remains as ill-fitting and unimpressive as ever in NXT. Whatever magic or mojo he had on the indies has officially been killed off. He should take notes from Velveteen Dream on how to lose a match and still look effective and get your character over (assuming Velveteen loses - the match is still ongoing). What is Ohno's character? Duke the Dumpster Drose joined a basketball team?

Major Kindle sale on WWE books: 99 cents - Big Apple Takedown $1.99 - 10 Count Trivia: Events and Championships - Andre the Giant: A Legendary Life - Are We There Yet?: Tales from the Never-Ending Travels of WWE Superstars - Batista Unleashed - Eric Bischoff: Controversy Creates Cash - Have More Money Now: A Commonsense Approach to Financial Management - Hollywood Hulk Hogan - Lita: A Less Traveled R.O.A.D.--The Reality of Amy Dumas - My Favorite Match: WWE Superstars Tell the Stories of Their Most Memorable Matches - Rey Mysterio: Behind the Mask - Rumble Road: Untold Stories from Outside the Ring - The Unauthorized History of DX - The WWE Championship: A Look Back at the Rich History of the WWE Championship - WWE Legends - Superstar Billy Graham: Tangled Ropes $2.99 - Adam Copeland On Edge - Ted DiBiase (WWE) - Walking a Golden Mile (William Regal) - Note: One review mentions bad typos and formatting issues in the Kindle version. $3.99 Note: This has been $2.99 in the past. - Cross Rhodes: Goldust, Out of the Darkness As tempting as it is to splurge on all of these, 1. I already own most of them in hardcopy, and 2. I worry is that all of these will end up being like the Kindle version of the Regal book with typos, formatting issues, etc. (according to one review). I did buy Big Apple Takedown for 99 cents despite already owning the paperback because it's batshit crazy in a good way - it throws Attitude Era WWE stars into the middle of a wonderfully terrible action movie/cop/crime scenario. How is the DiBiase book? Worth it if I've read his previous book? (Every Man Has His Price: The True Story of Wrestling's Million Dollar Man) I'm worried it'll just be a WWE-published rehash.

If that's true, then Jericho wrestling Omega is completely pointless. The whole idea - I'd imagine - is to get thousands of new fans. But New Japan needs to meet those fans halfway by upgrading their bush league NJPW World service.

I'm reading through Shooters: The Toughest Men in Professional Wrestling now, and while I thankfully haven't noticed any typo/grammar issues, it is a pretty dry read overall. Plus, in a chapter about a specific wrestler, the author will spend several pages going on a tangent about another wrestler entirely. The two do eventually intersect, but I wish the other wrestler had just been given his own chapter instead. It's interesting so far though, especially the way it shows wrestling transitioning from a shoot to a work. IMO, 90% of wrestling matches - even with shooters - were works (and 90% is probably a low number).

He looks like a normal human being?

Jericho or not, NJPW World won't do shit until it has a site in full English and proper apps on set top streaming boxes like Roku, PS3/4, etc. Yes, there's a Chrome extension that jerry-rigs the site to display English, you can hook your laptop up with an HDMI, cast it from the website, etc. All of that is bush league city, and no casual Jericho/WWE fan will bother with any of that. This needs to be as simple and streamlined as possible.

Dave is a notoriously poor writer, unless he's edited (which he wouldn't be on Twitter). I can only hope this is his idea of dry humor and he was taking a subtle dig at ROH's geek fanbase. Probably not though, huh?

I ended up buying the book before seeing the responses in this thread. I really hope the grammar/typos have been fixed, as that bugs the hell out of me. I also bought this (non-wrestling): Back to Brooklyn: Book 1 of the My Cousin Vinny Series - Yes, a book sequel to the movie "My Cousin Vinny." Only 99 cents.

Shooters: The Toughest Men in Professional Wrestling is now $6.99 on Kindle - the lowest price it's ever been, according to ereaderiq.com.

The dream will turn into a nightmare when lazy Brock takes 80% of the match and it ends in ten minutes. Be careful what you wish for...

I'm pretty sure that news only came out after this week's shows. Agreed. So now we're pretending pro wrestling is some high art that is too precious to be sullied by the likes of TMZ? Wowzers! What a ridiculous overreaction and complete misread of the situation. I realize Sorrow can rub people the wrong way - myself included - by sometimes being a troll poster and it's tempting to disagree with anything and everything he says, but he's right in this case. When you're right, you're right. This.

Agreed.

Jim Cornette always did say that Owens and Zayn were a bad influence on each other in ROH. Guess he wasn't "crazy old man ranting at cloud" after all.

Agreed. But when it's been well-established that ADR doesn't draw a dime anymore and brings nothing to the table but bad publicity at this point, there's no reason for Impact to still be using him unless they're contractually bound to. And now add Sami Callahan's alleged history of domestic abuse to the table. BAD hire, especially in this #MeToo climate. Impact just strikes me as so desperate, so willing to scrape the bottom of the barrel, when it does stuff like this.

Imagine if:

My guess:

How "innocent" is he really though? Incidents like the one in the airport don't happen because of just one person. He and Paige are obviously toxic for each other. Notice how we haven't heard anything about their drama since she's been back at the PC training for her comeback.

I remember Sal Sincere getting decent build-up at first, but like many other things, Vince seemingly soured on him quickly. But that wasn't your point, I know. With Jinder, I think it was the Indian market + his newfound dedication to "taking his vitamins, saying his prayers, and believing in himself." But I'm not sure those were the only reasons... As much of a mixed bag as Jinder has been, even he admits his release was a "blessing in disguise" because it forced him to change his attitude. This is an interesting interview with him on the topic: http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/898103-jinder-mahal-comments-on-facing-brock-lesnar-at-survivor-series-aj-styles-being-a-distraction-who-hed-like-to-face-at-wrestlemania He goes into how his approach and attitude changed, and I don't just mean his physique (lol) - he talks about the way he approaches Vince now vs. before, etc. So, right place, right time, right attitude, and especially right body. No worries. You are a good poster here and I always enjoy a spirited debate. I hope everything is going okay with you, work-wise.

Will Sami Callahan fall flat on his face in a second promotion? Until I see otherwise, I consider him another overhyped indy darling. As Solomon Crowe, he brought nothing to the table in NXT. Bad in the ring, bad on the mic, horrible facials and mugging that make early-era Jericho look subtle - just the drizzling shits all around. He claims he "wasn't allowed to be himself" in NXT (I'm paraphrasing) - is he really that much better elsewhere? As for ADR, if Anthem is in such cost-cutting mode, I have no idea what would possess them to bring him back. He doesn't draw a dime and has toxic publicity surrounding him. He can't be worth the headache or expense in any way. I can only assume they're stuck contractually and can't risk a lawsuit by releasing him. WWE would never fall into that trap legally, but "LOLTNA" might.

Okay, but you do realize we're on a rasslin' board, right? This is Pro Wrestling Only, not Financial Times Only. Do you honestly think anyone wanted to see Jinder come back, much less pushed as the main event ? Come on. Bad exemple. Cody's a much better one, although he wasn't fired, he wanted to leave. Fair enough on Jinder, but even you have to agree that it doesn't happen at all if he never gets fired the first time. Regardless, you're correct that Jinder not the best example to use - Drew is a much better example of what I'm talking about. While Drew's prospects on the main roster remain to be seen, I'm going to assume he will have a much higher ceiling this time.

No idea where you're getting the "capitalistic horseshit" talking point from. It seems you're having your own conversation right now, apart from the one actually in this thread. You're in your own little world. Let me know when you come back to our world and want to debate the talking points that exist in this thread and not the ones only inside your head. In the meantime, please stop putting words in my mouth to fit whatever agenda or rant you're looking for an excuse to have. It's intellectually dishonest. The point is, as the old saying goes, "absence makes the heart grow fonder." Would Jinder be in this position right now if he had never gotten fired? Probably not. Ditto for Drew. Instead, they'd be going onto their second decade in the E, drowning in the bottom of the card, making no impact, watching their market value lessen year after year after year. There are enough current examples of this that more than prove my point (Curtis Axel, etc.). Instead, they got fired, made less money in the short term, and now stand to make much more money in the long term than they would have if they were still on their first WWE run as bottom-of-the-barrel jobbers. Does that mean I'm trying to spin getting fired as a positive career move? Again, no. But the term "blessing in disguise" exists for a reason, and sometimes it really does help a person's career to go somewhere else and raise their stock (Drew, Cody, etc.). Hell, wrestling in the old days was built on that concept - no one ever stuck around one territory for too long because they'd eventually become stagnant. Imagine how much fresher stale loaves of bread like Randy Orton would be if he had other places to go, new wrestlers to work with, new styles to pick up on, etc. Not sure why that's such a difficult concept for you to grasp.

No idea if you're purposely being obtuse with the intent of trolling, but okay, I'll bite... Are you seriously going to sit there and argue that Drew McIntyre and Jinder Mahal being fired, going to the indies and raising their stock, and later returning weren't the best things that ever happened to them? I'm guessing we'll see the same thing happen for Cody Rhodes, as underwhelming as I personally find his current "main event cosplayer" character. The fact is, going nowhere in the WWE for 10 years is not better than leaving, raising your stock elsewhere, and coming back to a bigger push and more money. Short term loss for long term gain - if they can pull it off. To use Cody as an example again, he's betting on himself right now and it's most likely going to pay off for him in the long run (even if, again, what he's currently doing isn't to my tastes).